Chapter 1

"5! 4! 3! 2! 1! CONGRSTULATIONS CLASS OF 09!" screamed the teachers and seniors, throwing black graduation hats into the hair.

"Kagome! Kagome!" Eri cried, rushing to give her friend a hug. "I'm going to miss you so much. Especially now that I have to move back to Kyoto."

"We'll miss you too." Yuka and Ayumi joined the hug. Their added weight sent the four girls tumbling to the ground, laughing.

"I'll miss you guys, too." Kagome wiped away tears. "I'll be really busy travelling."

"Where are you going?" Ayumi asked.

"All over Japan." Kagome replied, pushing up off the ground and wiping of grass.

"Promise me we won't lose contact." Eri cried.

"We won't. I love you guys." Kagome gave each of them a hug, and then checked her watch. "Shoot, I'm gonna be late."

"We love you, too, Kagome!" the three girls yelled watching their friend, zip across the large field which graduation was being held on.

"Hold up, Kagome! Wait!" Hojo screamed, running after her. He skidded to a halt in front of her. "Congratulations Kagome, I didn't think you'd pull it off, but you passed all your classes. I guess you proved me wrong. I stopped you, because I wanted to tell you to have a good summer. Maybe we'll be able to hangout...?" Hojo trailed off.

"Yeah, thanks and congrats to you too, Hojo. Look, I've got to go now, so...later." Kagome eyed the sky and the watch on her wrist, before taking off again.

Kagome had just finished high school and was free to choose her life. She was eighteen, and it had been four years since she had started travelling with the Inutachi. Now that she had no school, she would be able to spend most of her time in the Feudal Era.

"I can't wait to tell Inuyasha. He'll be thrilled." Kagome laughed, climbing up the thousand steps to the shrine. Opening the door, Kagome called to her mother. "Mom, I'm home!" She rushed to her room to finish packing her bag to go to the Warring States Era and to take a nice, hotshower before leaving. It would be a long time before she came back.

"How was graduation?" Grandpa asked, looking up from writing an unusable sutra.

"Long, but awesome. I'm going to take a bath and then go to bed." Kagome skipped up the steps.

Kagome let out a blissful sigh as she sank into the tub.

"This is the life." Kagome gazed out the window to the sky. "I've never seen so many stars around here." she mumbled. She lifted her soap filled hand to the birthmark which had appeared on her eighteenth birthday.

The mark was a backwards 'E' with an arrow going vertically down the middle. Five 'tails' stuck out from the other side. She rubbed the right side of her neck, where the birthmark was.

'I wonder what it means.'

Flashback

"Mom?" called Kagome

"Yes,honey?"

"There's a weird birthmark on the side of my neck. It's been there since yesterday i think." She said in a worried voice

Mrs. Higurashi had a grim face and she stared at her daughter with wide eyes. "Are you serious?" she asked softly

"Yes Mom...Look" Kagome brushed her hair from the right side of her neck."Do you know anything of it?"

"No, but just leave it alone for now. okay?" Mrs.Higurashi's smile was tight.

"Okay..."

Flashback End

Kagome dried herself from her bath and stared at the weird birthmark in the mirror.

"Hopefully, the answer will come soon." Kagome mumbled, pulling on her pyjamas and heading to bed.

A.N. - Hope you enjoyed the first chapter. Its real short but I swear it'll get longer as time goes by...

Thisstorywasbeta-dby.Singer

WARNING: THIS IS A KAGOME/SESSHOMARU FIC, SO IF YOU DON'T LIKE THIS PAIRING THEN YOU SHOULDN'T BE READING IT! BUT YOU SHOULD READ IT AND TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK AND GIVE ME SOME IDEAS TO MAKE FUTURE FICS BETTER!

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